Let’s Not Be Divided. Divided People Are Easier to Rule. – NYTimes.com
Trevor Noah: Let’s Not Be Divided. Divided People Are Easier to Rule. – NYTimes.com. Source: Let’s Not Be Divided. Divided People Are Easier to Rule. – NYTimes.com
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Times public editor ‘should have held back more’—Armstrong ‘cautiously optimistic’ about Yahoo deal—Fake News Flynn- POLITICO Media
Times public editor ‘should have held back more’—Armstrong ‘cautiously optimistic’ about Yahoo deal—Fake News Flynn if this is a ‘universal’ story then the story-tag will be ‘story’ By Joe Pompeo 12/06/16 06:21 AM EST PUBLIC EDITOR ADDRESSES TIMES TWEET CRITICISM CRITICISM — Liz Spayd acknowledged that she may have gone too far in castigating the…
More Than Half Of New Yorkers Are One Paycheck Away From Homelessness, Says Study: Gothamist
(Dani Reyes Mozeson / Flickr) More than half of all New Yorkers don’t have enough money saved to cover them in the event of a lost job, medical emergency, or other disaster, according to a new report by the Association for Neighborhood & Housing Development. Nearly 60 percent of New Yorkers lack the emergency…
The Myth of the Smug Liberal | New Republic
In the dawn of the Trump era, there is no stereotype more lazily deployed than the condescending coastal liberal who lives in his own bubble. The most irritating media trope to emerge in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s election is the idea that it was a rebuke to “condescending” liberals who live in our…
Facebook and Google make lies as pretty as truth – The Verge
The fake news problem we’re facing isn’t just about articles gaining traffic from Facebook timelines or Google search results. It’s also an issue of news literacy — a reader’s ability to discern credible news. And it’s getting harder to tell on sight alone which sites are trustworthy. On a Facebook timeline or Google search feed,…
What the Alt-Right Really Means – The New York Times
An attendee at a Trump campaign event in New Hampshire in September. Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times Not even those most depressed about Donald J. Trump’s election and what it might portend could have envisioned the scene that took place just before Thanksgiving in a meeting room a few blocks from the White House….
One Tumblr User Sent Her Pinky Toe to Another Tumblr User
Photo: Adrian Ramirez/Getty Images/EyeEm It would be almost rude to close out the year without another flare-up regarding the exchange of human remains on Tumblr, the premier social network and microblogging service for the discussion and exchange of human remains. Last year, it was “Boneghazi,” in which a self-styled witch admitted to, apparently, collecting bone…
Why I’m Not Freaking Out | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Until recently, I thought I’d steered clear of what Scott Alexander calls, “the toxoplasma of rage.” Now, sadly, I’m at the point where people are getting angry at me for failing to be properly angry about Trump’s election. This will probably only make them angrier, but in case anyone’s genuinely curious, here’s my thinking. 1….
How VR and AR Will Reshape Media | HispanicAd.com
The rising adoption of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) by advertisers and consumers will deliver transformative creative experiences. Yet as much as creative and production shops will need to change to meet the new artistic and technical demands, media shops will face the more critical questions. At this point, VR and AR technologies…
Now Is the Time to Talk About What We Are Actually Talking About – The New Yorker
Hide CM floating unit Now Is the Time to Talk About What We Are Actually Talking About In the wake of the election, we must resist the slightest extension in the boundaries of what is right and just. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY LIVIO MANCINI / REDUX Barrier Status: ‘none’ America has always been aspirational to me….